This book presents a unique approach to person-centered
anthropology, providing a new form of practice theory that
incorporates and explains sources of cultural change. Built around
the learning and use of autobiographical narrative forms, it draws
from, and expands on, phenomenological, psychological, and moral
anthropological traditions. The author draws on extensive original
fieldwork in Thailand to explore questions including: how Buddhism
has dealt with the appearance of global capitalism; and why some
Thais continue to pursue nirvana-oriented Buddhist practices when
karma-oriented reward-systems seem to be more satisfying as a
whole. Where previous person-centered ethnographies have explored
the ways in which social forces cause individuals to conform to
cultural norms, this work advances the analysis by focusing on how
ideas are transmitted from individuals to into wider society. This
book will provide fresh insights of particular interest to
psychological, phenomenological and narrative anthropologists; as
well as to researchers working in the fields of religious and Asian
studies.
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